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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 19h

Busting out the Daihatsus to heal the TL.

A Midget II in front of a Ford F350 brodozer

A race-prepped Midget II. Grrrr... *bites a Porsche's ankle*

A bunch of Midget IIs racing in a Best Motoring video. They all have samurai-style banners.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 23h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 1d

In other news: Sylvan Adams is no longer partner to Factor & Premier Tech, meaning for the 2026 season Israel-Premier Tech will no longer be the team name. New name has yet to be announced, but might just be Premier Tech as they've been racing or Factor-Premier Tech, kinda like Lidl-Trek

🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 15d

Yo no, you know what? Hell yeah to Factor bikes saying "Fuck you, we're not Boeing" to IPT

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · Jan 24

In the first 100 days I will dig down into the place of honor. On day one I will issue an Executive Order that the radical woke warning signs be removed and anyone perpetuating the "dangerous and repulsive" lie to be terminated. I will restore the country by touching the ancient treasures.

Graphic showing the proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

The technical consensus is clear: you can't create a backdoor that only lets the "good guys" in. However they're dressed up, these proposals create cybersecurity loopholes that hackers & hostile nations are eager to exploit. 6/

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

The reality is that scanning any content before it is encrypted (or after! or during!) negates the very purpose of encryption and is a dangerous backdoor. No amount of tinkering or word games can change that inescapable reality. 5/

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

In particular, we must be wary of "new" proposals that allow scanning of "known content" while claiming to protect privacy by proscribing "indiscriminate" surveillance. We must also look out for those that mandate only scanning for “hashed images or videos.” 4/

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

The war is not over, however. Now we move to the European Council, where the issue is unresolved. We expect closed-door negotiations to engage in rhetorical arbitrage--claiming to support privacy via word games and bespoke definitions--while in practice undermining it. Tedious & dangerous stuff. 3/

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 2d

Academia rewards resilience, by which I mean the ability to rewrite the same sentence forever

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Constantin Wurthmann @wurthmann.bsky.social · 2d

For my DFG-funded project “German Sexual Identity and Election Study” and my ERC-funded project “VisibleQueers”, I am looking for three student assistants (m/f/d) to provide dedicated support and active collaboration.

Please share!

www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/three-stu...

Three Student Assistants (m/f/d) Projects German Sexual Identity and Election Study as well as VisibleQueers

www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2d

"German authorities registered approximately 3,200 right-wing extremist-motivated crimes committed by people up to the age of 24 in 2020. Last year, the number was more than double, at over 7,100....most of these crimes were committed by male adolescents between the ages of 14 and 17."

Omas gegen Rechts Wetterau @ogrwetterau2017.bsky.social · 2d

www.fr.de/politik/rech...
AfD wirkt. Ihre Dominanz in den sozialen Netzwerken zeigt dieses Ergebnis.

Rechtsextreme Straftaten junger Menschen nehmen stark zu

Die Behörden registrieren mehr als doppelt so viele rechtsextreme Delikte junger Menschen wie noch 2020. Die Bundesregierung sieht neue Gruppierungen und soziale Medien als Treiber.

www.fr.de

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Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 3d

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 3d

the point is education as a class-marker, you respect it as a shibboleth of someone you're supposed to recognise is in the same club as you or else tug your forelock to but that is precisely the reason it should not be available to the lower orders

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Daniele Florean @daniflorean.bsky.social · 3d

David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 3d

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.”

@theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

Daniele Florean @daniflorean.bsky.social · 3d

Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 3d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 5d

the extremely boring and simple and “we told you so” explanation is the post financial crisis austerity binge in which european institutions declared fiscal ‘discipline’ more important than democracy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 5d

If politics are going crazy in several European countries one after the other, I think it is time to go past blaming the failures of individual political actors (and there are quite a few, both in the UK and France) to looking at the systemic pressures our political systems are failing to deal with.

Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 5d

If you are overly focused on the admittedly increasingly batsh*t character of British politics, don‘t neglect the batsh*t character of French politics.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 7d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 6d

it's pretty wild to be doing "stop being racist to my computer friend" discourse when the forces of Actual Racism are totally ascendant in government and inventing new ways to arrest people for their skin color every day

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 6d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Signal @signal.org · 7d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Lucas Brown Eyes @lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social · 8d

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10.

Windows 7 use is surging 5x now.

AI is product poison.

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